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W. HUSE.

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No. 260,870. Patented July 11 1882.

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PATENT OFFICE.

WASHINGTON HUSE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

PILLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent no. 260,870, dated July 11,1882.

Application filed March 23, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WASHINGTON Hose, of Boston, county of Suffolk, Stateof Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Pillows, of which thefollowing description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification.

This invention has for its object theproduction of a pillow which willcontain all the advantages of a hair and of a feather pillow, and yet bebetter than either. Large pillows, such as now commonly made offeathers, besides being quite expensive, are objectionable because theyare too soft and yield too much to the head or person, thus making suchpillows very heating, so that, especially in warm weather, or when usedfor the comfort of the sick, their warmth is uncomfortable andobjectionable. Some peop1e,beeause of the heat resulting from featherpillows of suffieient size and softness to be desirable, resort to theuse of hair pillows; but the hair is objected to because it is too hard.

In my experiments to produceapillow which would yield sufficiently tothe head or person, thus obviating the objectionable hardness of hair,and yet be not as soft and heating as feathers, I ascertained that bymaking onehalf of the pillow of hair and the other half of feathers, 1could secure the desired object.

In the production of-my invention I first form a tick or case with twopockets separated by a fibrous partition. I fill one pocket with hair,and secure the hair in the pocket at intervals by stitches or cords, asusual when upholstering a hair mattress, and I then fill the secondpocket with feathers, closing the ends of the tick or case to keep thehair and feathers in place. placed uppermost, the hair will have a softfoundation, which will prevent the hair matting together or becomingsolidified, as is now common with hair pillows and mattresses, and thelayer of hair resting on feathers makes a bed much softer than hairalone, and cooler than feathers. If the feather side he turned If thecooler hair side is uppermost, the thickness of the feathers will not beso great as to permitth e head or person to sink into the feathers, aswhen a large feather pillow or bed is employed. The hair serves as asupport for the feather portion, and yields less than would thefeathers.

Figure 1 represents in cross-section a pillowcoinposed of hair andfeathers in separate pockets; and Fig. 2 shows in perspective one of myimproved pi-llows, the hair side being uppermost, one end being brokenout to show its interior construction.

The ticking or other cloth, a, to form the ease for the pillow is foldedupon itself so as to form three layers, 2 3 4, and the ends of the clothare united to the body transversely, as at 5 6,

preferably by sewing-machine stitches. The layer3 forms thedividing-wall between the two pockets, one of wbich contains hair, asshown at h, and the other feathers, as shown atf. The hair willpreferably be stitched, or tied, or tufted at b, as commonly done in themanufacture of hair mattresses,and the mouth of the tick or case will beclosed, as at d, Fig. 2. The interposition of the hair above thefeathers prevents the feathers from spreading as much as when the bodycomes directly in contact with the feathers.

A pillow made as described will cost less than a good feather pillow ofthe same size, and will be far better for all uses and more agreeablethan feathers or hair alone.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, the tick or case dividedby a partition, 3, into two pockets, both of which are permanentlyfilled, one with feathers, as atf, and the other with hair, as at It,all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. I

WASHINGTON HUSE.

Witnesses:

Jos. P. LIVERMORE,

BERNICE J. Novas.

